Gwyneth Paltrow Syndrome
The acknowledgements issue for Global Gangland looks like it has been resolved. Hopefully the name of an innocent has been changed.
As always, my acknowledgements suffer from Gwyneth Paltrow syndrome. They are too long, too sentimental and feature the sort of desperation to thank people clearly born out of the fear I feel I may never get another book published. This does not take away from the fact there are a number of people it is important to attempt to show some heartfelt thanks to for supporting me during writing Global Gangland. I could not have gotten through the book without Surreal Girl, Stephen, Tim and Mr. York. When you are in book hell, even something as simple as kind words can have a special magic.
This time round there is an even more distinctly odd mix of usual and unusual suspects in the acknowledgements than I have produced before. Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt rub shoulders with Frank Serpico; Zef Nano meets Gary Russell and Dave Courtney stands alongside Japan’s National Institute of Police Science. It is also probably the first and last time the acknowledgements of a Carlton book will quote the line: ‘Always remember that one day all this drug monkey business will be legal.’
Given all this, quite what Mr. Burzotta will make of his dedication I am not sure. Possibly I will no longer be able to enjoy special spaghetti in Queens Road.
As always, my acknowledgements suffer from Gwyneth Paltrow syndrome. They are too long, too sentimental and feature the sort of desperation to thank people clearly born out of the fear I feel I may never get another book published. This does not take away from the fact there are a number of people it is important to attempt to show some heartfelt thanks to for supporting me during writing Global Gangland. I could not have gotten through the book without Surreal Girl, Stephen, Tim and Mr. York. When you are in book hell, even something as simple as kind words can have a special magic.
This time round there is an even more distinctly odd mix of usual and unusual suspects in the acknowledgements than I have produced before. Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt rub shoulders with Frank Serpico; Zef Nano meets Gary Russell and Dave Courtney stands alongside Japan’s National Institute of Police Science. It is also probably the first and last time the acknowledgements of a Carlton book will quote the line: ‘Always remember that one day all this drug monkey business will be legal.’
Given all this, quite what Mr. Burzotta will make of his dedication I am not sure. Possibly I will no longer be able to enjoy special spaghetti in Queens Road.
2 Comments:
I never doubted you'd do it, David. I can't imagine what it must have cost you to pull it off, and I'm delighted to have been able to be of some sort of use, but you're a bloody good writer, and I never doubted you for an instant.
Still don't, come to that...
Tim.
Tim, you will make me blush. You were more than 'some sort of use'. Writing the book was a season of doubt in more ways than one and your kind words and advice were a massive help. Thank you (BTW, none of that changes the fact you still owe me big time and I hope to be around to collect at some point).
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